Sumerian Lexical Lists and Sitchin's "Translations"

I have discussed
this issue on my PaleoBabble blog, but wanted to summarize it
here. Here's an excerpt of my comments:

As noted above, the ancient
Mesopotamian scribes created dictionaries. Lists of words are a
common feature among the thousands of Sumerian and Akkadian
cuneiform tablets which have been discovered by archaeologists. Many
are just groupings of common words, while others represent an
inventory of the word meanings of the languages used in Mesopotamia.
These “lexical lists”, as scholars call them, were indispensable to
the 19th century scholars who deciphered the Sumerian and Akkadian
texts, for they were used to compile modern dictionaries of these
languages. Today all major lexical texts have been published in the
multi-volume set, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, begun by Benno
Landsberger in the 1930s. It is indeed a rare instance where ancient
dictionaries of a dead language form the core of the modern
dictionaries used by scholars of today. Such is the case for the
ancient languages of Sumer and Akkad. Sadly, Mr. Sitchin neglects
these resources.

What is a Lexical
List?

To learn more about lexical lists, click here. The important point in all this is that Sitchin's
translation of key terms, like Sumerian MU, conflict with the
bilingual material of the lexical lists compiled by the Mesopotamian
scribes themselves.

If you want to check the most up-to-date scholarly
translations of Sumerian literature for evidence of Sitchin's
"translations," or if you want to search a Sumerian word in these
texts, go to the
online
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
maintained by Oxford University. You can click on "Anunnaki"
in the navigation pane on the left to watch a video of Dr. Heiser's
search for the term "Anunnaki" at the ETCSL website.